"If it's about the right length I have no doubt they will be glad to do so, for we have no very great store of arms, and we are not quite so particular about having everything exactly uniform as they are in a crack corps at home.
— from The Curse of Carne's Hold: A Tale of Adventure by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

The sun has reached his farthest point northward, and, although he travels about his usual distance each day, he moves in a part of his orbit which is, for all practical purposes, parallel to the equator, and hence must rise about the same place and hour each morning, and set at the same place and hour every evening.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 04, June 1884, No. 9 by Chautauqua Institution

Say what you will, it is the cause of all the sectional prejudice and hatred ever engendered in this country.
— from The Southern Soldier Boy: A Thousand Shots for the Confederacy by James Carson Elliott

Now, I argue that if electricity created this earth with all its complex elements and organic forms, it also created all suns and worlds and all the machinery of the universe by the same process, and has endowed every rolling sphere in space of sufficient size and power with vegetation, and all the varied forms of animal organism.
— from The Universe a Vast Electric Organism by Geo. W. (George Woodward) Warder

There was something pathetic about his evident efforts and Nicky's hidden distaste that was all there was to meet it, masked by courtesy.
— from Secret Bread by F. Tennyson (Fryniwyd Tennyson) Jesse

Note, for instance, Locke's recoil from the scholastic philosophy, and his early eager interest in chemistry, medicine, and meteorology.
— from The Evolution of States by J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson

"I suffer," she used to say,—"I suffer a great deal; but Jesus suffered more;" and, embracing her crucifix, she would renew all her good resolutions to suffer patiently, and her earnest entreaties for grace to do so.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 01, April to September, 1865 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Various

I looked at Lord Wellington watchfully, and was charmed with every turn of his countenance, with his noble and singular physiognomy and his eagle eye.
— from The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3 by Fanny Burney

Mendelssohn, in his "St. Paul" and his "Elijah," embodied a high ideal, building on his predecessors and attaining, especially in the latter, an eclectic spirit that manifests keen [Pg 246] discrimination.
— from For Every Music Lover A Series of Practical Essays on Music by Aubertine Woodward Moore